Showing posts with label World Heritage List. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Heritage List. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Muralla de Ávila - España

La Muralla de Ávila, by Guillermo Aldaya / AldayaPhoto

  • Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches
Founded in the 11th century to protect the Spanish territories from the Moors, this 'City of Saints and Stones', the birthplace of St Teresa and the burial place of the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada, has kept its medieval austerity. This purity of form can still be seen in the Gothic cathedral and the fortifications which, with their 82 semicircular towers and nine gates, are the most complete in Spain. (UNESCO)

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Palacio Real (Aranjuez, España)

El Palacio Real (Aranjuez, España), by Guillermo Aldaya / AldayaPhoto

  • Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the delicately modulated architecture of its palatial buildings. Three hundred years of royal attention to the development and care of this landscape have seen it express an evolution of concepts from humanism and political centralization, to characteristics such as those found in its 18th century French-style Baroque garden, to the urban lifestyle which developed alongside the sciences of plant acclimatization and stock-breeding during the Age of Enlightenment. (UNESCO)

Friday, 8 June 2012

World Heritage List - No. 17


  • In Brugge (Belgium) - 2011
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000
  • "Brugge is an outstanding example of a medieval historic settlement, which has maintained its historic fabric as this has evolved over the centuries, and where original Gothic constructions form part of the town's identity. As one of the commercial and cutural capaitals of Europe, Brugge developed cultural links to different parts of the world. It is closely associated with the school of Flemish Primitive painting." (UNESCO)

Sunday, 27 June 2010

Sanctuary of Bom Jesús de Matosinhos

  • In Congonhas (Minas Gerais, Brazil - 2010)
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985
  • "This sanctuary in Minais Gerais, south of Belo Horizonte, was built in the second half of the 18th century. It consists of a church with a magnificent Rococo interior of Italian inspiration; an outdoor stairway decorated with statues of the prophets; and seven chapels illustrating the Stations of the Cross, in which the polychrome sculptures by Aleijadinho are masterpieces of a highly original, moving, expressive form of Baroque art." Unesco
  • Saturday, 24 April 2010

    San Francisco de Assis Church

  • In Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais, Brazil - 2010)
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1980
  • "Founded at the end of the 17th century, Ouro Preto (Black Gold) was the focal point of the gold rush and Brazil’s golden age in the 18th century. With the exhaustion of the gold mines in the 19th century, the city’s influence declined but many churches, bridges and fountains remain as a testimony to its past prosperity and the exceptional talent of the Baroque sculptor Aleijadinho." Unesco
  • Monday, 8 February 2010

    Basílica de São Bento


  • In Olinda (Pernambuco, Brazil - 2009)
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1982
  • Thursday, 4 June 2009

    Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis (VI)




  • Ruins of São Miguel das Missões (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983
  • "The ruins of São Miguel das Missões in Brazil, and those of San Ignacio Miní, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa María la Mayor in Argentina, lie at the heart of a tropical forest. They are the impressive remains of five Jesuit missions, built in the land of the Guaranis during the 17th and 18th centuries. Each is characterized by a specific layout and a different state of conservation." Unesco
  • Wednesday, 3 June 2009

    Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis (V)

  • Ruins of São Miguel das Missões (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983
  • Tuesday, 2 June 2009

    Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis (IV)



  • Ruins of São Miguel das Missões (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983
  • Monday, 1 June 2009

    Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis (III)

  • Ruins of São Miguel das Missões (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983
  • Sunday, 31 May 2009

    Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis (II)

  • Ruins of São Miguel das Missões (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983
  • Saturday, 30 May 2009

    Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis (I)

  • Ruins of São Miguel das Missões (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  • Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983